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US interest rates raised for first time in three years

121 points · 126 comments · higginsniggins

  1. qalmakka · · focus · HN ↗
    This is basically self inflicted, as usual messing up in the Middle East always ends up with consumer paying the price for their ruler's stupidity

    "Oh no, my drinking water tastes like crap after I pooped in the well"

    1. outside1234 · · focus · HN ↗
      We can’t afford healthcare because they revoked the subsidies but at least we now also can’t afford gasoline too!
      1. jjav · · focus · HN ↗
        > We can’t afford healthcare because they revoked the subsidies but at least we now also can’t afford gasoline too!

        But we can easily affort 500+ million per day for faraway foreign wars! That, no problem.

        1. qzw · · focus · HN ↗
          Also apparently a $5000 “dividend” for everyone if we just “do the right thing”. I thought you had to be profitable to pay a dividend, but apparently not. Oh also, that $1.5T will magically not add to the debt or come from tax dollars.
          1. torginus · · focus · HN ↗
            Isn't that the textbook definition of buying votes?
            1. grim_io · · focus · HN ↗
              Yeah. And? :)
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